I absolutely adore Thai food. I could happily eat Thai at every meal, and never get bored. The flavours are just so sublime; so intense yet delicate at the same time… practically orgasmic! Now, I know I’m ‘dieting’, for want of a better word (i.e. trying to lose weight), but I think it’s important […]

We had this for dinner tonight, with Quorn sausages, veg and gravy. I’ve never really been a fan of mashed potato, which is why I invented this recipe; it’s much tastier, less stodgy, is healthier, and the yellow split peas add an interesting texture. If you don’t have (or like) coconut oil, use olive/sunflower […]

I have a tendency to dip into darkish moods occasionally, where I question my worth and wonder if anyone would really miss me if I were to disappear off the face of the earth. Oh, it’s nothing serious; I’ve never felt ‘suicidal’ in the sense that I would actually take my own life, and to […]

A couple of sessions back, Heather and I were talking about my fondness for obsession with chocolate, and how it always seems to be my downfall whenever I attempt to diet. Once I’ve managed to wean myself off it I’m not too bad, but it’s getting weaned in the first place that’s the difficult bit […]

When I was visiting the Conwy Feast in October last year, I came across a stall selling Dru barley grass. It’s not something I would normally have paid that much attention to, at that time (though I would now, of course); but the posters were eye-catching and what really caught my eye was the claims […]

As I’m trying to keep off the ‘proper’ tea for the sake of my remedies (and because of the amount of sugar I was taking with my tea), I’m trying a lot of different herbal infusions and fruit teas at the moment. I thought it might be an idea to have a ‘tea of the […]

I’ve been drinking plenty of water, because I know I oughta. I like the way that sentence sounds, and it reminded me of this classic 80s ad, which I’ve never stopped finding funny. Like the lady in the ad says: Golly! I’ve never been a fan of water, as a drink (as a substance for […]

I was a smoker for 30 years, until stopping two weeks ago. (By the way, I’m with Allen Carr on this one: it’s better to think of it as ‘stopping’ or ‘quitting’ smoking, rather than ‘giving up’, because giving up implies some form of sacrifice, which quitting something so vile and unhealthy shouldn’t be). I […]